For years, national competitiveness has been measured in terms of economic growth and productivity. By incorporating metrics of sustainability, human development, and income into a single graphic, this visualization invites a new vision: It's time to rethink competitiveness in a resource-constrained world.

As part of our mission here at Visualizing.org of helping the world make sense of complex issues through data and design, this spring we will start collaborating with leading media organizations around the world to bring your data visualizations to the masses every day.

This week marks the 5th birthday of Twitter, the micro-blogging platform whose meteoric rise has greased grassroots political movements, upended mainstream media, and opened a firehose of information-sharing — all giving the Visualizing community much to celebrate. ﻿

In the days since the earth convulsed in Japan, the country has mobilized a massive rescue effort. Tracking Honda GPS units, this brilliant visualization of roadways by proxy is a dynamic map of mobility on the island and a tool for finding intact rescue routes.